IP Library Granted Patent US 8,054,173
Granted Patent B2
US 8,054,173 · App. 12/464,546 · Granted Nov 8, 2011

Alarm management device

Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,054,173
App. No.
12/464,546
Granted
Nov 8, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An alarm management device capable of constructing logics for suppressing tailgate alarm without depending on controllers, and of managing engineering and management thereof with concentration. The invention relates to an alarm management device for managing alarms issued in a plant. The alarm management device is provided with alarm state management apparatus for managing issuance states of acquired alarms, alarm engineering apparatus for setting alarm issuance patterns, alarm suppression judgment apparatus for judging suppression target alarms from the alarm issuance states and alarm issuance patterns, and alarm processing apparatus for executing suppression of the suppression target alarms among the acquired alarms in response to an instruction of the alarm suppression judgment apparatus.

Claims (8)

1. An alarm management device for managing alarms issued in a plant comprising:

alarm state management means for managing issuance states of acquired alarms,

alarm engineering means for setting alarm issuance patterns, alarm suppression judgment means for judging suppression target alarms from the alarm issuance states and alarm issuance patterns, and

alarm processing means for executing suppression of the suppression target alarms among the acquired alarms in response to an instruction of the alarm suppression judgment means.

2. The alarm management device according to claim 1 , wherein the alarm issuance patterns group alarms that are associated with each other in causes of issuance and specifies an alarm serving as a source of causes as a suppression condition.

3. The alarm management device according to claim 2 , wherein the alarm suppression judgment means monitors alarm issuance states managed by the alarm state management means, and causes alarms other than an alarm satisfying the suppression condition among the alarms of a group belonged to the suppression condition to be the suppression target alarms when the alarm satisfying the suppression condition is issued.

4. The alarm management device according to claim 1 , wherein the alarm suppression judgment means monitors alarm issuance states managed by the alarm state management means, and instructs cancellation of the suppression of suppression target alarms when the suppression target alarms are not issued on schedule.

5. The alarm management device according to any claim 1 , wherein the alarm processing means monitors processing states of the plant, and suppresses the suppression target alarms in response to the instruction of the alarm suppression judgment means when the processing states satisfy prescribed conditions.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 21, 2009
From: OKADA, SATOSHI
To: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-191606 · Jul 25, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20100019894A1 · Jan 28, 2010